Robert Davies

Dec 10, 2024 | familybusinessunited.com | Robert Davies

Philanthropy is a core part of many families' and family businesses' long-term goals and wealth plans. In the UK, 2023 saw another record year with £13.9 billion donated to charity. Whilst tax relief is not normally a primary motivator for this activity, there are valuable reliefs available to donors that can allow for a gifting strategy to be important.

Dec 5, 2024 | familybusinessunited.com | Robert Davies

There have been a lot of inheritance tax (IHT) changes in the recent Budget. High net worth families and businesses have had their succession planning options curtailed. Robert Davies from Foot Anstey takes a look at whether Family Investment Companies (FICs) are a tool to consider post Budget 2024. IHT- What’s Happened? The rates of IHT have not changed from 20% on lifetime chargeable transfers, and 40% on death.

Nov 27, 2024 | ajp.com.au | Brett MacFarlane |Robert Davies |James Tsaoucis |John Smith |JOhn Smith

60-day uptake ‘quite modest’: expert Pharmacy financials looking “pretty strong” due to low uptake of 60-day dispensing to date, says leading analyst, with first additional… Medics to ‘fight’ Doctor of Pharmacy title AMA warns Doctor of Pharmacy title could confuse patients and risk safety Australia’s medical profession is voicing its opposition to… ACCC announces Chemist Warehouse/Sigma merger decision After an eight-month inquiry, the chief competition regulator has had its final say on...

Nov 1, 2024 | theconversation.com | Robert Davies |Emily Chiang

This article contains spoilers for We Solve Murders. We Solve Murders is the latest crime novel from Richard Osman, bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club series. The story follows Amy Wheeler, a bodyguard for the security firm Maximum Impact, and her father-in-law, Steve Wheeler, a former London detective now handling small-town investigations in rural England. Amy’s latest assignment is to protect Rosie D'Antonio, the world’s most famous author (“if you don’t count Lee Child”).

Aug 18, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Zilong Li |Anders Albrechtsen |Robert Davies

AbstractInexpensive and accurate genotyping methods are essential to modern genomics and health risk prediction. Here we introduce QUILT2, a scalable read-aware imputation method that can efficiently use biobank scale haplotype reference panels. This allows for fast and accurate imputation using short reads, as well as long reads (e.g. ONT 1X r2 = 0.937 at common SNPs), linked-reads and ancient DNA.